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Chapter 14
The physical and spiritual sensory perception of the terrestrial human being
The basic energies appear in varying degrees of density.
The most dense degrees constitute "physical matter" and the least dense "spiritual matter".
As the terrestrial human being's sensory perception of spiritual matter is in the main still only latent, while the sensory perception of physical matter is near its culmination, only that part of the structure of the I that is built up of physical matter becomes visible or consciously accessible to the same being.
And as the above-mentioned part is concentrated in the body of the energy of gravity, that is, the physical body, it is thus only this body with its corresponding physical sensory perception that can be experienced as true reality by the terrestrial human being.
As, in relation to this, the five other general organs or bodies of the I still appear for the same being in merely more or less latent forms, its experience of these and the five other planes of existence in question are to a corresponding degree likewise latent.
As the physical body is not, however, an independent organ but an organ in the subconsciousness and is therefore connected with this or the other five organs of the basic energies by special centres in the physical brain and nervous system, there arises an interaction between the physical and spiritual experience of the above-mentioned being.
Physical existence is thus not purely physical, but is based on this interaction.
As physical experience is culminating, while spiritual experience appears only in latent forms to the terrestrial human being, the latter experience becomes totally eclipsed by or fused with the physical.
And the individual's realisation of his spiritual identity becomes thereby illusory.
He believes that everything is physical and that he himself is one with his physical body.
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